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PEOPLE v. SWAMYNATHAN

No. 107441.

923 N.E.2d 276 (2010)

236 Ill.2d 103

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Ramesh K. SWAMYNATHAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

January 22, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, State Appellate Defender, Thomas A. Lilien, Deputy Defender, and Barbara R. Paschen, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Elgin, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Michael J. Waller, State's Attorney, Waukegan (Michael A. Scodro, Solicitor General, and Michael M. Glick and Drew Meyer, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

OPINION

Chief Justice FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

Defendant, Ramesh K. Swamynathan, entered a plea of guilty but mentally ill to one count of first degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Nearly two years later, defendant filed a pro se motion to withdraw his guilty plea and vacate his sentence, asserting that he was unfit to enter the guilty plea, rendering his plea involuntary. The circuit court of...

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